Sarah from Orange County

I believe Governor Newsom should be recalled based on his blatant disregard for the limits on governmental authority and the protection of personal liberties which are both enshrined in the Constitution. In the midst of the Covid-19 situation, he has assumed emergency powers for an indefinite amount of time with no sign of handing back the powers of legislation to the actual legislature. He has treated religious institutions differently from similar secular institutions, and curtailed the rights of free exercise of religion and freedom of assembly, increasing restrictions even as data continues to demonstrate that the virus has a much lower death rate than previously believed. He threatens our right to be free from unlawful search through his push for contact tracing as a containment measure for the virus. He has set California up for catastrophic economic failure by closing businesses for months, and then imposing restrictions which prevent them from being profitable as they look to reopen, while at the same time continuing to spend more money than the state was bringing in before losing millions of dollars in tax revenue.